Illinois Police Triangle Encounter 2000

In the early hours of January 5, 2000, Illinois police officer Ed Scott in Highland became the first of multiple officers to observe a massive triangular craft. As he radioed his dispatch, officers in adjacent jurisdictions began reporting the same object. Over 30 minutes, officers from Highland, Lebanon, Shiloh, Millstadt, and Dupo Illinois, as well as Missouri state troopers, collectively tracked the object by radio relay as it moved across a broad geographic area. The object was described as having three white lights at its vertices, a red light in the center, and making no sound despite its enormous estimated size — larger than a football field. Scott Air Force Base confirmed that civilian and military radar had tracked an unidentified contact in the area during the same time window. The case is extensively documented through recorded police radio transmissions, individual officer reports, and the Scott AFB radar log request. Researchers consider it one of the definitive law enforcement UAP encounter cases.